SOVIET NOT TOLD OF NAZI BALKAN MOVE; 3 ITALIAN DESTROYERS SUNK BY AJAX (10/16/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 10/16/40 | Robert P. Post, Hanson W. Baldwin

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Fighter Range and British Radar Deployment
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.

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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

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Denial in Moscow – 2
The International Situation – 3
British Air Drive – 4
British Plane Turret Turned over to U.S. – 4
Machinery Set Up – 5-6
20 Divinity Students are Divided on Draft – 6
Americans’ Travel in Far East Restricted; Hull Extends Regulations on Passports – 6
Spee’s Conqueror Battles off Sicily – 7
17 in Congress are of Age for Registration Today * – 7
Thefts of Nazi Arms Reported in Norway – 8
Unity in Australia is Sought by Labor – 8
The Far Eastern Problem – 9
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 10-11

* Hey, Hey, L.B.J.!
Registration begins today!

And isn’t the grandfather of the internet also on that list?

[CougarGA7]

Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 16th October 1940

• Weather: Fog widespread in Germany and France. Wet and misty night.
• Day: Quiet.
• Night: Limited attack on London by single aircraft.

  Enemy action by day

  Enemy activity, which was on a very small scale, was confined almost entirely to sporadic raids by single aircraft, the majority of which operated in the South-East. Several of these raids approached the Inner Artillery Zone but only one is reported to have penetrated to London. An isolated raid was plotted near Arbroath where an attempt to intercept was made without success, and others were plotted in the Liverpool, Swansea, Cardiff and Gloucester areas.

  A few reconnaissances were made to the South and South-East Coasts and into the Thames Estuary.

  Patrols were maintained in the Channel and Straits and off the Dutch Coast.

  Our fighters damaged one enemy aircraft near Ashford. We lost one aircraft, but the pilot is safe.

  Night Operations - 16th / 17th October 1940

  Enemy activity was on a heavy scale until midnight, after which only a few isolated raids entered the Country. The main attack was directed against London and suburbs, but a small number of early raids visited Wales and the Midlands. A large proportion of raids originated from the direction of Holland.

  1900 Hours to 2100 Hours

  Raids from the Dutch Coast entered the Estuary and crossed near Harwich, the majority flying due West to approach London from the North. A few spread out North over East Anglia and up to the Wash and Humber areas. Enemy aircraft from the Somme area crossed the Coast near Beachy Head and those from Baie de la Seine crossed near Shoreham, all with London as their objective. A number of raids from Cherbourg crossed near Portland and flew to Bristol, South Wales, Midlands and in a few cases to Liverpool. Two raids were plotted in the neighbourhood of the Orkneys. One enemy aircraft crashed near Bishops Stortford at 1920 hours and another South-West of Denbigh at about 1930 hours. The cause is at present unknown in either case.

  2100 Hours to 2300 Hours

  Heavy activity continued, with a large number of raids from the Dutch Coast, crossing between Southwold and the Estuary, most of which flew to London. A few raids appeared to be active over East Anglia, and some were suspected of minelaying off Harwich. Rids from the French Coast crossed between Beachy Head and Dungeness and flew towards London. Some raids were still operating over the Midlands but few fresh incoming raids were plotted in this area. One raid from the direction of Norway or Denmark crossed the Coast South of Leuchars, flew inland to Perth, and after circling recrossed the Coast at Montrose.

  2300 Hours to 0100 Hours 17/10/40

  A number of fresh incoming raids decreased considerably. Activity appeared to be confined almost entirely to London and the suburbs, and the majority of raids originated from the direction of Dieppe.

  0100 Hours to 0500 Hours

  Isolated raids continued to approach London. At 0600 hours three raids were plotted travelling in an Easterly direction from the Inner Artillery Zone the rest of the Country being clear of raids.

  

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  Statistics

  Fighter Command Serviceable Aircraft as at 0900 hours, 16th October 1940

• Blenheim - 46
• Spitfire - 225
• Hurricane - 421
• Defiant - 17
• Gladiator - 8
• Total – 717

  Casualties:

  	Enemy Losses
  	By Fighters – By Day
  Destroyed	Probable	Damaged
  		1 Do215
  	By Night
  2 E/A Cause Unknown
  2	Nil	1

• Own:

• 1 Hurricane of which the pilot is safe.

  Patrols:

• Own

• During the night of 15th / 16th October - 40 patrols involving 41 sorties.
• During the day of 16th October - 73 patrols involving 234 sorties.

• Enemy

• It is estimated that about 40 enemy aircraft operated overland during the day of 16th October.

  Balloons:

• No report.

  Serviceability of Aerodromes:

• No report.

  Organisation:

• No report.

  Home Security Reports

• General Summary

• Date: 16th October 1940

• Only slight enemy activity was observed during the day and no bombs were dropped in the London area. Slight damage reported in Kent, Midlands & Scotland.
• After nightfall, attacks on Central London were not of the same intensity of late probably due to adverse weather conditions; however, bombing is reported over a widespread area in the suburbs together with attacks in South Wales, Perth and Birmingham.
• It is reported that the bombs which fell on the Great Western Railway Goods Depot at Lambeth are of extremely light material with a very high penetrating power. According to pitting of walls and buildings, fragments appear to spread low over the ground as well as up into the air. They appear to be a combination of very high explosives and incendiary bombs of a small type.

• Detailed Summary

• RAF Stations 16th October 1940

• North Weald: At 0300 hours on 16th October, HE, IB and OB were dropped. One UXB necessitates care in landing and one heavy calibre bomb was dropped in the ground of the Cable and Wireless Station to the East of the Aerodrome. No damage to building reported.
• Ternhill: At 0721 hours on the 16th, 4 HE and 6 IB were dropped., destroying one hangar and slightly damaging two others together with adjacent buildings. Eight Ansons were destroyed and 2 Blenheims and un-named other aircraft damaged. Five casualties resulted, including one civilian who was seriously injured.
• Attacks were also made on Biggin Hill and Kirkwall. No details to hand.

• Other damage

• Dagenham: Fires were reported at Mays & Baker, Ford Motor Works, Briggs Motor Bodies and Pritchard Gold & EPS Company. Effect on production of those companies is not yet known.
• Owing to interruption of gas supply, production of Non-Ferrous Die Casting Co of North Circular Road is reported to have ceased.
• The Air Ministry Intelligence at Ritchings Park was severely damaged by a mine and it is reported that another unexploded mine is in the vicinity.
• An unexploded HE is reported in the Slaughter Houses of Caledonian Market which it is believed will vitally affect distribution of meat in North London.
• An enemy aircraft machine-gunned the streets of Brockworth (Glos) without effect and it is also reported that a goods train was machine-gunned on two occasions at Yockleton near Shrewsbury.
• St Pancras: Traffic is at a standstill owing to unexploded mine. Interruptions to traffic are also reported at Crayford, between Orpington and Chelsfield, Sutton and Wimbledon (residents alongside evacuated), Chadwell Heath (LNER Station).
• An unexploded bomb is reported at Beckton Gas Works, East Ham.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I almost forgot our supplementals this morning.

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/oct40/f16oct40.htm

Japanese seeking Dutch oil

Wednesday, October 16, 1940 www.onwar.com

In Batavia... There are discussions (concluded on October 19th) between the Japanese and the authorities in the Dutch East Indies concerning the supply of oil. It is agree to supply the Japanese with 40 percent of the production for the next six months. There are British attempts to block this agreement.

In the United States... Registration begins for the draft according to the provisions of the Selective Service Act. The first drafts will be balloted on October 29th.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/16.htm

October 16th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
Battle of Britain: With the autumn weather, accident casualties on both sides from now on often exceed combat casualties.

There is widespread fog in Germany and France during the day which keeps all but the most capable Luftwaffe pilots on the ground. Those that do fly attack Kent and the western part of England. RAF fighters fly 275 sorties and down 7 Luftwaffe aircraft; the RAF loses 1.

It is a wet and misty night over England and only about 200 aircraft bomb Britain. RAF bombers returning from a raid on Italy encountered difficulties and 8 Whitleys and a Czech-crewed Wellington crashed. (Jack McKillop)

Despite official denials, rumours persist that the Germans attempted an invasion in the late summer and perished disastrously. Large numbers of dead Germans are believed to have been washed ashore on the south coast between the Isle of Wight (where the “invasion” was aimed) and Cornwall. One story is that the corpses were charred, because the sea was set on fire.

A further theory is that the Germans held an ill-fated rehearsal of the invasion and that the barges were sunk in storms. No-one has seen the bodies, but that is explained by the authorities concealing them. In fact, any bodies washed up are of German airmen shot down.

Minesweeper HMS Dundalk is mined during routine minesweeping operations off Harwich at 52 03N 01 48E. She is taken in tow, but founders on the 17th at 51 57N 01 27E. (Alex Gordon))(108)

Corvette HNLMS Friso ex-HMS Carnation commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

FRANCE: Dunkirk is bombarded by ships of the Royal Navy.

GERMANY:

U-458 laid down.

U-145 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

NORWAY: Aircraft of the Royal Navy bomb oil tanks at Tromsø .

POLAND: Warsaw: The Jewish ghetto is formally established by decree.

EGYPT: Cairo: Eden cables Churchill asking that Wavell be sent another battalion of Infantry tanks with a Brigade Recovery Section, to keep them serviceable, in the event of a planned British offensive.

NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES: The Japanese and authorities in the Dutch East Indies begin four days of discussions regarding oil supplies. It is agreed to supply 40% of production to the Japanese for the next six months. Attempts are made by the British to block this agreement.

CANADA: The fifth group of ten USN ships involved in the destroyers-for-bases agreement with Britain—USS Twiggs (DD-127), USS Philip (DD-76), USS Evans (DD-78), USS Wickes (DD-75), USS McCalla (DD-253), USS Rodgers (DD-170), USS Conner (DD-72), USS Conway (DD-70), USS Stockton (DD-73) and USS Yarnall (DD-143)—arrive at Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Jack McKillop)

Corvettes HMCS Trail and Chicoutimi launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

Destroyer HMCS Saguenay departed Halifax for UK to join EG 10, Greenock. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: 16 million men register for the draft under the Selective Training and Service Act passed by the Congress. (Jack McKillop)

Destroyer USS Hambleton laid down.

Corvette USS Tenacity ex-HMS Candytuft. (Dave Shirlaw)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-48 (Lt-Cdr Bleichrodt) operating in the area to the North-West of Rockall Bank, establishes contact with a homeward bound convoy (SC7, homeward bound from Sydney, Nova Scotia) Five further U-boats in the area are directed towards the convoy. They were U-46, U-99, U-100, U-101 and U-123.

U-48 attacks but is pursued and attacked with depth charges.

The Canadian Great Lakes Carrier bulk cargo ship Trevisa (1,813 GRT) was sunk in the North Atlantic in position 57.28N, 020.30W, by U-124, KptLt. Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, Knight’s Cross, CO. Seven men were lost from her 21 crewmembers.

During battle against convoy OB- 228, U-93 was attacked three times - in the early morning by three escorts with 19 depth charges, the second time at 1015 hrs by an escort with 7 depth charges, and the third and last time in the evening by a Sunderland aircraft with a bomb. The boat suffered no damage at all. (Dave Shirlaw)

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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 412 October 16, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 99. Widespread fog over France and Germany severely limits operations during the day. There are some German patrols in the English Channel and single aircraft fly over Kent, the Thames Estuary, Liverpool, Swansea, Cardiff and Gloucester. There are limited engagements with 1 German aircraft damaged over Ashford, Kent, and 1 Hurricane lost (pilot is safe). British motor torpedo boat MTB-106 hits a mine and sinks near the Nore Light Vessel in the Thames Estuary. However, there is heavy overnight bombing of London and other targets in South Wales, Midlands Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham and Perth (Scotland) are bombed until midnight. 2 German bombers crash of unknown causes around 7.30 PM, 1 near Bishops Stortford and another near Denbigh.

At 3.50 AM, U-124 sinks Canadian SS Trevisa 400 miles Northwest of Ireland (7 killed, 14 crew picked up by corvette HMS Bluebell and landed at Gourock, Scotland). British submarine HMS Tigris sinks tiny French trawler Cimcour with gunfire in the Bay of Biscay, 120 miles West of La Rochelle, France.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/596.html

Aircraft from British carrier HMS Furious bomb oil storage tanks and a German seaplane base at Tromso, Norway, and also attack shipping.

[CougarGA7]

That is Albert Gore Sr. on that list too. Father of the man who would have been President if he could have just carried his home state.

[CougarGA7]

According to what I have the decree establishing the Warsaw ghetto is dated October 2nd. No matter. Here is the pronouncement.

1. On the basis of the Regulation for Restrictions on Residence in the Government-General of September 13, 1940 (V.Bl.G.G.I., p. 288), a Jewish quarter is to be formed in the city of Warsaw, in which the Jews living in the city of Warsaw, or still to move there, must take up residence. The [Jewish] quarter will be set off from the rest of the city by the following streets: [here follows a list of streets and sections of streets]....

2. Poles residing in the Jewish quarter must move their domicile into the other part of the city by October 31, 1940. Apartments will be provided by the Housing Office of the Polish City Hall.

Poles who have not given up their apartments in the Jewish quarter by the above date will be forcibly moved. In the event of a forcible removal they will be permitted to take only refugee [style] luggage (Fluechtlingsgepaeck), bed-linen, and articles of sentimental value.

Poles are not permitted to move into the German quarter.

3. Jews living outside the Jewish quarter must move into the Jewish area of residence by October 31, 1940. They may take only refugee luggage and bed-linen. Apartments will be allocated by the Jewish Elder (Judenaeltester).

4. The Appointed Mayor of the Polish City Hall and the Jewish Elder are responsible for the orderly move of the Jews to the Jewish quarter, and the punctual move of the Poles away from the Jewish quarter, in accordance with a plan yet to be worked out, which will provide for the evacuation by stages of the individual Police districts.

5. The Representative of the District Governor of the city of Warsaw will give the necessary detailed instructions to the Jewish Elder for the establishing and permanent closure of the Jewish quarter.

6. The Representative of the District Governor of the city of Warsaw will issue regulations for the execution of this Decree.

7. Any person contravening this Decree, or the Regulations for its execution, will be punished in accordance with the existing laws on punishment.

Head of the Warsaw District

Dr. Fischer

Governor